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A woman has two rectangular gardens. The larger garden is five times as wide and three times as long as the smaller one. If the area of the smaller one is x, what is the difference in size of the two gardens?

Hence, if the area of the smaller one is #x#, area of the bigger one is #15x# and difference in size of two gardens is #15x-x=14x#

Area of a rectangle: example: #a xx a=a^2# so the area
can't be just 15x,it must be #15x^2#

same with the smaller garden#=x^2#

If you make a sketch of the bigger garden and you
mark off 3 points on two sides and 5 points on the
other two sides and join the points,you get 15 sections.
I think the x should have been #x^2# we talk about areas.